The tools developed as a part of this project could be used
to write books and technical documents in pod6 as welll as to make them
available for reading on most common devices, easy publishing
online and printing.

The WriteAt is a free open source suite for book writers.
It helps making and preparing books for publishing and printing.
WriteAt uses pod6 as markup language.

"Compared to POD, Perl 6's Pod is much more
uniform, somewhat more compact, and considerably more expressive." (S26)

The typical WriteAt book template looks like this:

=TITLE MyBook
=SUBTITLE My first free book
=AUTHOR Alex Green
=DESCRIPTION Short description of the book
=begin CHANGES
Aug 18th 2010(v0.2)[zag] preface
May 27th 2010(v0.1)[zag] Initial version
=end CHANGES
=CHAPTER Intro
D<Pod> is an easy-to-use markup language with a simple, consistent
object model underlying the document. Pod can be used for writing language
documentation, documenting programs and modules, as well as for
other types of document composition.

As you see it is simple. Because pod6 is extendable, it is possible to
split big files into parts:

I am a software developer with ten year experience, specializing in
collaborative filtering, social data mining and e-commerce environment applications. I am capable of producing clear and accessible documentation for developers, and can communicate proactively with application users.

I'd like to know how POD6 compares against PseudoPod: https://metacpan.org/release/Pod-PseudoPod , which was used for the book Modern Perl and for other books. Furthermore, would it be possible to implement a converter from POD6 to DocBook/XML ? Otherwise, this grant sounds pretty good.

I don't think we should fund any project this young. Not only is the long term value of this project rather uncertain, the viability in the first place isn't proven, and the author is an unknown to the community. This does not sound like that much of a good idea.